Hot off the heels of the VFX/PDX demo last year, local studio LAIKA has picked up a site license of KATANA for use on it’s upcoming features, presumably to take advantage of it’s superior look-dev workflow and scalable architecture that’s better at handling large scale environments.
It’s always good when you can create a scene that actually renders, I think it’s safe to say!
LAIKA joins studios such as Sony (obviously – the birthplace of KATANA), ILM, MPC, Spin, Reliance Media (who recently acquired Digital Domain), etc as KATANA early adopters.
Read the press release with all of the usual quotables and juicy bits here.